Nearly 60 percent of Qatari population live in ‘labour camps’

Doha : Almost 60 percent of Qatar’s 2.4 million population live in what the government calls “labour camps,” figures from an April 2015 census showed on Sunday, highlighting the issue of the emirate’s huge migrant workforce.
The figures from the Ministry of Development Planning and Statistics (MDPS) revealed that 1.4 million people live in what the department officially designates as “labour camps”.